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The administration has also asked Israel to freeze all growth in settlements.
Critics of Israel's policy of "natural growth" in settlements, including Israel's left and Palestinian leaders, argue that it is a subterfuge for wholesale outward expansion of settlements.
The growth in settlements was accompanied by an increase in Israeli control over the territories, and large parts of those territories were incorporated into Israel's infrastructure.
Indeed, prior to this dramatic growth in settlements during the 1990s, Palestinian support for Hamas was less than 15percentt.
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The area now known as Briarcliff Manor had seen human occupation since at least the Archaic period, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into the village did not occur until the Industrial Revolution.
This formulation is typically a coded way of advocating "natural growth" in the settlements.
Continuing growth in the settlements has been a continuing frustration for the Obama administration.
For instance, Israelis maintain that they had an understanding with the Bush administration supporting "natural growth" in the settlements.
The attrition part is obvious: there has been relentless growth in Israeli settlements and control of the territories over the years.
For Netanyahu, Orthodox settler fertility is convenient, because it permits him to budget for "natural growth" in the settlements, and keep expanding them.
The pressure on the government to allow for natural growth in these settlements is enormous and no government is likely to freeze completely their natural expansion even under intense American pressure.
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